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Posted on 09/28/2007 7:20:52 PM PDT by mdittmar
TALLIL, Iraq – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers installed and handed over a compact water treatment plant to Iraqi authorities in Dhi Qar Province in Southern Iraq.
The Iraqis "have signed for the facility and it's operational," said Navy Cmdr. Michael Lang, officer in charge of the Adder Area Office of USACE's Gulf Region South district.
The compact plant will supply water to residents of the village of Sulaiman and people living nearby, serving approximately 420 homes, according to Tommy Nason, a construction representative with the Adder Area Office.
The project cost nearly $419,000, he said. It was paid for by the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.
Officially known as the Al-Sulaiman Compact Water Unit & Network System, the new facility will provide reliable, clean water to residents in an area that has long faced critical water challenges.
These challenges arose in part from contamination due to high salinity in the water and from under-funding for water needs during the past regime.
Southern Iraq has a high mortality rate for infants and children under five due to preventable water-borne diseases.
The facility consists of a 50 cubic meter/per hour compact unit water treatment plant with an above-ground storage reservoir and includes a piping network and connection to an existing water network
FR WAR NEWS! This water treatment plant sounds like progress and it is much needed by the people in that terribly hot land. And I’m sure that the people will appreciate it a lot, though you won’t hear it from our news media.
Well, the Liberals will be mad about this; after all, they have said that it’s a quagmire over there, nothing good can ever come out of us being there, etc. etc.
The only quagmire is located right there in the Libs’ underpants, as they keep wetting themselves over all this positive news coming out of Iraq.
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